[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR44.70]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 44_EXPORTATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND 
 
                            Subpart C_General
 
Sec. 44.70  Authority of appropriate ATF officers to enter premises.

    Any appropriate ATF officer may enter in the daytime any premises 
where tobacco products, or cigarette papers or tubes are produced or 
kept, so far as it may be necessary for the purpose of examining such 
articles. When such premises are open at night, any appropriate ATF 
officer may enter them, while so open, in the performance of his 
official duties. The owner of such premises, or person having the 
superintendence of the same, who refuses to admit any appropriate ATF 
officer or permit him to examine such articles shall be liable to the 
penalties prescribed by law for the offense.

(68A Stat. 872, 903; 26 U.S.C. 7342, 7606)

[T.D. 6871, 31 FR 49, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975, and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28088, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 51 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986]